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Unions will fight ‘tooth and nail’ against 70,000 job cut plans, Nowak tells PCS conference
Paul Nowak addresses the PCS conference, May 22, 2024 [Andy Aitchison]

RISHI SUNAK’S plans to cut 70,000 Civil Service jobs are a national security risk that union will fight “tooth and nail,” TUC general secretary Paul Nowak told the PCS annual conference today.

He said: “We fought against Boris Johnson’s plan to slash 90,000 civil service jobs — and we were successful.

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